When using the automated catalog (OPAC) a keyword search will help you locate general information and will provide access to the system’s index. To search for information on your poet you can do a subject search of your poet's name. A good subject heading for literary criticism often includes the words criticism and interpretation.
Some useful subject headings:
Author's name (subject keyword)
American literature-History and criticism
American fiction-Jewish authors
Author's last name, First name- look for subheadings criticism and interpretation
Literature, modern- 20th century-history and criticism
Literature, modern- 19th century-history and criticism
Dewey Decimal Numbers: to locate information on literary criticism and author information. Look for books under these numbers in both the nonfiction section and reference section of the library.
810 American literature
811 American Poetry
812 American Drama
813 American Fiction (and Criticism)
817 American Humor
820 English & Old English literatures
821English Poetry
822 English Drama
822.3 Shakespeare
823 English Fiction
Poetry websites - listed on the Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Modern American Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
Modern American Poetry is a collaborative effort that aims to provide "a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." One can find biographical information, bibliographies, criticism, commentary, and links to online copies of works on major modern American poets.
Poets.org http://www.poets.org/
The official website of the American Academy of Poets offers essays, interviews, extensive bios, online copies of poems, audio clips, internal links to related poets, selected bibliographies, and external links on more than 500 American poets
For Georgia residents: www.galileo.peachnet.edu - go to Beta version: Literary Reference Center
Check with your teacher and/or media specialist for a password to use the site from home!
Google Search Examples
www.google.com[[http://www.google.com/|]] Google search term examples (reflects results 11/30/2007)
"literary criticism" poetry = 5,940,000
"literary criticism" poetry site:edu = 299,000
Added Feature:http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mylibrary/
You can now create personalized libraries on Google Book Search where you can label, review, rate, and of course, full-text search, a customized selection of books. Once you've created a library, you can annotate it and share it with friends.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Class Pathfinder: Literary Criticism - Poetry
When using the automated catalog (OPAC) a keyword search will help you locate general information and will provide access to the system’s index. To search for information on your poet you can do a subject search of your poet's name. A good subject heading for literary criticism often includes the words criticism and interpretation.
Some useful subject headings:
- Author's name (subject keyword)
- American literature-History and criticism
- American fiction-Jewish authors
- Author's last name, First name- look for subheadings criticism and interpretation
- Literature, modern- 20th century-history and criticism
- Literature, modern- 19th century-history and criticism
Dewey Decimal Numbers: to locate information on literary criticism and author information. Look for books under these numbers in both the nonfiction section and reference section of the library.Poetry websites - listed on the Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html
Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
Modern American Poetry is a collaborative effort that aims to provide "a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." One can find biographical information, bibliographies, criticism, commentary, and links to online copies of works on major modern American poets.
Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/
The official website of the American Academy of Poets offers essays, interviews, extensive bios, online copies of poems, audio clips, internal links to related poets, selected bibliographies, and external links on more than 500 American poets
Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
This site is an online anthology of poetry, which also includes biographical information and criticism about many of the poets listing in it.
Subscription Database
For Georgia residents: www.galileo.peachnet.edu - go to Beta version: Literary Reference Center
Check with your teacher and/or media specialist for a password to use the site from home!
Google Search Examples
www.google.com[[http://www.google.com/|]]
Google search term examples (reflects results 11/30/2007)
"literary criticism" poetry = 5,940,000
"literary criticism" poetry site:edu = 299,000
http://books.google.com[[http://books.google.com/|]]
Google Books search term example (reflects results 11/30/2007)
"literary criticism" poetry = 29000
Added Feature: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mylibrary/
You can now create personalized libraries on Google Book Search where you can label, review, rate, and of course, full-text search, a customized selection of books. Once you've created a library, you can annotate it and share it with friends.
http://scholar.google.com[[http://scholar.google.com/|]]
Google Scholar search term example (reflects results 11/30/2007)
"literary criticism" poetry = 50,100
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Google: 48,700 for "literary criticism" poetry "william carlos williams"
959 for "literary criticism" poetry "william carlos williams" site:edu
Google Scholar: 2,020 for "literary criticism" poetry "william carlos williams [articles]